I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
A federal judge issued an injunction Monday to stop federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, Reuters news service reports.
The injunction halts — at least temporarily — an Obama administration policy to fund the research.
The U.S.…
Los Alamos National Laboratory hopes to spend $1.7 billion to complete the environmental cleanup by a 2015 deadline, with about half that cost coming from four master contracts scheduled to be let this spring, according to the Santa Fe…
Citizen Action New Mexico is calling for a public hearing on Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB)’s state hazardous waste permit for open burning and detonation of old munitions, but New Mexicans must request such a hearing by Friday evening.…
Susana Martinez isn’t the only big-ticket candidate in New Mexico’s fall elections who questions whether human society is the root cause of global warming. The three Republicans running for Congress expressed opposition to climate change legislation and were generally hesitant to acknowledge that human activity is having important negative effects on the planet.
One way to slow the emission of so-called greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide, is to pump them back into the ground, believes New Mexico Tech Associate Professor Brian McPherson.
Just last week, New Mexico Tech was awarded a…
A gas pipeline fire near the intersection of Golf Course Road and Paseo del Norte in Albuquerque Wednesday may have resulted from a short in an adjacent PNM electrical line, state Pipeline Safety Bureau (PSB) investigators suspect —…
Google and Verizon are conducting secret talks and are close to an agreement that might ultimately lead to consumers paying more to receive content over the Internet, the New York Times is reporting.
The agreement, if it happens, might…
U.S. senators Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman introduced a bill in Congress to create a “Center of Excellence” research program at the University of New Mexico (UNM) for cavernous angioma.
Cavernous angioma is a rare, genetic brain…
Journalist and filmmaker Chris Dudley will screen his film “Genetic Chile” on July 31 at The Kosmos in Albuquerque. The film examines genetically modified organisms, specifically New Mexico chile peppers. Dudly describes it as “a film…
New Mexico has become the 13th state to side with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s new rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions from oil refineries, cement facilities and coal power plants, Attorney General Gary King announced Thursday.…
A newly-released Sandia National Labs study analyzing projected rainfall patterns across the U.S. suggests that most — but not all — of the lower 48 states would suffer economically from unchecked climate change over the next four decades.…
The deadly March 2 explosion at the Navajo refinery in Artesia was just one of the latest in a series of refinery blasts that have killed at least 15 workers this year alone. Last month, the U.S. government began to impose higher penalties for safety violations and to implement of a new ‘Severe Violator Enforcement Program,’ which will allow patterns of safety violations in one state to prompt inspections of a company’s facilities nationwide.
New Mexico Governor and former U.S. United Nations ambassador Bill Richardson may be coming in from the political cold and heading to North Korea.
President Barack Obama is reportedly considering a North Korean request to send Richardson…
The state Public Regulation Commission (PRC) met in Aztec Thursday for a heated public meeting about proposed state regulations requiring the installation of fire sprinklers in newly constructed houses.
Home builders told commissioners the requirement would drive up…
Citing a new report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that corn-based ethanol subsidies cost taxpayers more than $7 billion a year, Sen. Jeff Bingaman Thursday voiced support for cuts to the ethanol tax credit…
By day, 36 top high school science students from around the world are taking college-level science courses at New Mexico Tech, as part of the university’s six-week summer school program.
But by night, the mild-mannered overachievers break into teams of…
Former Sandia National Laboratories vice president W.J. “Jack” Howard was inducted into the lab’s Hall of Fame last week for his work on nuclear weapons safeguards and other contributions.
Howard was responsible for the early recognition that nuclear…
If Cormac McCarthy‘s post-apocolyptic vision in the novel The Road ever comes to pass, survivors may still be able to enjoy New Mexico chile with their meager meals.
Tsile chile seeds, grown by traditional farmers at the
The state Public Regulation Commission (PRC) Tuesday voted unanimously to fine the Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) $371,000 for a 2008 incident in which the company failed for two months in 2008 to repair a potentially explosive gas leak in Albuquerque, or even to warn the public of the resulting hazard at the busy intersection of Montgomery Blvd. and Carlisle Blvd.
Major corporations are spending millions of dollars to influence Congress as Congress works to rewrite telecommunication rules that affect consumer Internet service.
Internet service providers and groups that want more control over who has access to faster service, including…
